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NEW ISSUE ALERT
Japanese auteur Hamaguchi Ryūsuke is our latest cover star for Evil Does Not Exist
Find out what’s inside here and below:
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Out Monday for subscribers
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The votes are in. Find out what critics have voted the Greatest Film of All Time
#SightAndSoundPoll
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And the winner is… AFTERSUN (dir. Charlotte Wells)
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of 2022
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Sofia Coppola for the Sight and Sound poll
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What will top the
#SightAndSoundPoll
?
1952: Bicycle Thieves
1962: Citizen Kane
1972: Citizen Kane
1982: Citizen Kane
1992: Citizen Kane
2002: Citizen Kane
2012: Vertigo
2022: ?
Just two days until all is revealed…
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101 hidden gems: the greatest films you’ve never seen
As chosen by Mike Leigh, Benny Safdie, Ngozi Onwurah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Mulvey, Abel Ferrara, Radu Jude and more
Now online in full:
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Aki Kaurismäki for the Sight and Sound poll
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And the winner is… KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of 2023
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For the first time in 70 years the
#SightAndSoundPoll
has been topped by a film directed by a woman – and one that takes a consciously, radically feminist approach to cinema. Things will never be the same, writes Laura Mulvey
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RIP Michael Snow (1928-2023)
He cast his votes for the Greatest Films of All Time in the 2022
#SightAndSoundPoll
, selecting four films, three of which are his own
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The Greatest Films of All Time, as selected by Nicolas Winding Refn – including a festive favourite!
#SightAndSoundPoll
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RIP Mike Hodges (1932-2022)
He submitted this list of his Greatest Films of All Time to this month’s
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Jane Schoenbrun for the 2022
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Michael Mann for the
#SightAndSoundPoll
Read his accompanying comments:
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Gina Prince-Bythewood (
@GPBmadeit
) selects her ten Greatest Films of All Time for the
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The countdown starts now. The Greatest Films of All Time will be announced today at 7pm GMT
#SightAndSoundPoll
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Over 2,000 ballots, for your perusal
All the votes from our critics’ and directors’ Greatest Films of All Time polls are now available to browse online
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Hong Sangsoo for the Sight and Sound poll
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We are tremendously sad to hear that Agnès Varda has reached the end of her journey through a marvellous life in film.
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“When audiences don’t want important movies, then it’s very hard to make good movies. More and more, you have cinema that is made for suspended adolescence. Movies with people who wear capes.”
— The Gospel of Paul Schrader
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We asked 480 directors, including Martin Scorsese, Joanna Hogg, Bong Joon Ho, Mia Hansen-Løve and Barry Jenkins, to vote for their Greatest Films of All Time. Here are the results
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Get ready for round two: the top 250 of the
#SightAndSoundPoll
will be revealed on Tuesday 🍿
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Abel Ferrara for the Sight and Sound poll
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Davies submitted this joyous list to our 2022 Greatest Films poll
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The Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by
@JulieDash
, whose Daughters of the Dust (1991) placed 60th in the
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Bong Joon Ho for the 2022
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The Sight & Sound Directors' Poll results will also be announced tomorrow – 480 directors have voted, including Martin Scorsese,
@edgarwright
, Joanna Hogg,
@RealGDT
, Bong Joon Ho, Mia Hansen-Løve,
@BarryJenkins
and
@MichaelMann
. Will Tokyo Story keep the crown or be dethroned...?
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The results are in!
The best video essays of 2023 – 181 video essays selected by 48 international voters.
Read on for the full list 👇
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100 underseen films directed by women, as selected by Jane Campion, Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton and more
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“We are the killers, and we have to understand that”: Martin Scorsese on Killers of the Flower Moon, voted the best film of 2023 by Sight and Sound’s critics and contributors
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“We are the killers, and we have to understand that”: Martin Scorsese on Killers of the Flower Moon
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One week to go until the results of our Greatest Films of All Time poll are revealed – what will change from 2012? 👀
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Sight and Sound’s 50 best films of 2021, as selected by 111 film critics
How many have you seen?
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Nicolas Winding Refn for the Sight and Sound poll
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100 overlooked films directed by women, as selected by Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert and more
How many have you seen?
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Guillermo del Toro for the Sight and Sound poll
Read his comments, including alternative picks for each director:
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What is the greatest film of all time?
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“I never thought I’d get to my age making films. All I could do is offer this. I hope it’s accepted”
With Killers of the Flower Moon in cinemas today, read our wide-ranging cover interview with Martin Scorsese:
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Our 25 best ‘moving image art works’ of 2017 – as chosen by 188 international critics and curators:
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“I'm a minimalist”: the dramatic stillness of Mads Mikkelsen. ☞
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Welcome to the dollhouse: ten takes on a century of cinematic cutaways, from silent Hollywood to
#HereditaryMovie
☞
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@paul_posts
Just to clear this up:
We haven’t sent our invites out for the filmmakers’ poll yet; he'll be invited when we do!
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Happy 75th birthday to John Carpenter!
His picks for the Greatest Films of All Time, for the
#SightAndSoundPoll
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The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women – with contributions from Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Tilda Swinton and many more ☞
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Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) becomes the newest film to place on the
#SightAndSoundPoll
, coming =225th less than two years after its release
It joins Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which placed 30th
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A samurai in Paris: from our archives, an extended conversation with Jean-Pierre Melville upon the release of his lean loner noir classic Le Samourai in 1968 ☞
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Lynne Ramsay for the Sight and Sound poll
Read her comments:
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“I'm a minimalist”: the dramatic stillness of Mads Mikkelsen:
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Horror enters the canon. Joining Get Out (=95th) and The Shining (=88th) in the
#SightAndSoundPoll
:
=118th: The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
=118th: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
=211th: Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
=243rd: Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
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Romain Gavras, director of Athena, selects his ten Greatest Films of All Time for the
#SightAndSoundPoll
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“We do films to share with people. When old films are shown, then they are not forgotten, that feels good.”
#AgnesVarda
begins her talk at this evening's in-conversation event
@BFI
Southbank.
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The best video essays of 2018 – as chosen by 47 top practitioners, curators and scholars ☞
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Out on Monday! 🪑
Find out what’s inside here and in the 🧵 below:
Order your copy now:
Pull up a chair, it’s the new
@SightSoundmag
.
#anime
auteur Shinkai Makoto goes deep on his latest film
#Suzume
with
@nickkinocritic
,
@AnnoDracula
charts the history of Dracula 🧛♂️📺
+ meet our brand new columnists
@nicoleflattery
,
@Andr6wMale
and
@alsolikelife
. Out next week 💥
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50 key anime films – featuring cats, astronauts, sad girls, flying pigs, slasher samurai, orphans, cats, predatory lambs, cyborgs, kodama, yuri girls, cats, and this big guy ☞
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The greatest films of all time, as selected by Andrew Haigh for the Sight and Sound poll
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RIP Jeanne Moreau, 1928-2017: a cultured, sensual actress for whom cinema was “life itself”
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Revealing… Sight and Sound: the Hidden Gems issue
Find out what’s inside here and in the 🧵 below:
Order your copy now:
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The greatest (French) films of all time, as selected by Wes Anderson (in France) for the
#SightAndSoundPoll
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“
#Roma
is the sort of movie that successful pop filmmakers say they’d like to use their clout to make but almost never do”:
@NickPinkerton
reviews Alfonso Cuarón’s offset childhood memoir ☞
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Schrader first participated in our poll in 1972, as a critic
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Congratulations to our guest editor Bong Joon Ho who can now add not the one but four Oscars for
#Parasite
(Best Film, International Film, Director and Original Screenplay) to his desk here.
Our guest editor Bong Joon Ho at the reins of our March 2020 issue – illustrated by
@cooperillo
. Read all about it here ☞
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